• Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How is this so? Everyone here has a karma score. I see mine, and everyone else’s when I look at their profile.

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      1 year ago

      But those don’t do anything here. On reddit visibility is based on karma, with negative karma you get buried and your comment might even be auto-hidden¹. On Lemmy, all comments are visible all the time, including their vote ratio. There’s no ad based recommendation algorithm to please, so it’s not vital. So it’s more of an ad-hoc opinion poll on the comment content.

      ADD¹: And to add, it might be auto-hidden against the viewing user’s will. Sometimes, even if you sorted by controversial and wanted actively to read comments with negative karma, you would have to manually unfold them one by one. This is reddit taking away the control from the user. It isn’t an option, it’s not a setting.

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        1 year ago

        Ahh! Interesting. I didn’t see it that way or know that’s how it worked. Thanks for the response.